Four Dollars and Fifty Cents

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Four Dollars and Fifty Cents

• Vocabulary
• p. 168-179

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• col lect ing

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• collecting

The paperboy is collecting the money for last
months newspapers.
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• collecting

Were you collecting baseball cards?
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• de cent

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• decent

Telling him that I was sorry for being rude was
the only decent thing to do.
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• decent

Widow Macrae wanted to give Shorty a decent
burial.
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• de ter mined

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• determined

Even though his tummy hurt, the little boy was
determined to finish eating the pie.
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• determined

Shorty was determined to keep his money.
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• sus pi cions

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• suspicions

We have suspicions that it was the cat that
knocked over the glass of milk.
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• suspicions

The Widow Macrae had her suspicions that Shorty
was trying to trick her.